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Sorry Domers, Urban Meyer is still a GATOR - we may wear jorts down here, but we don't feast on cheeseburgers.

OK, enough of my sarcasm. IMHO Notre Dame made the right decision in giving a vote of cofidence to Charlie Weis, albeit a tepid one. NOW the pressure's really on; not only does he need to being in a decent recruiting class, he needs to find a way to overcome two crappy seasons in a row - or else it's "goodbye Charlie".

The best thing for Notre Dame right now is to receive an invite to a bowl game since they're eligible, prepare well for it and try to end the year on a positive note with a win to boost morale and move forward.

I still remember being puzzled by the media's coverage of the Meyer/Weis hirings. I heard several commentators say that Notre Dame was fortunate that Meyer took the Florida job because Weis has such football savvy.

ND might have told Meyer-"Look, we're going to keep Weis around for one more year,just for you and against our better judgement, time for you to get another MNC. But you better do it this year or next, we can't wait forever to hold your dream job for you. Then, you will have nowhere to go but down at UF. So you come here and prove to the world that you can turn a crappy program into a championship program. Don't worry about the money--plus, we will build you a huge dome to put your house in, with palm trees and beaches and climate control it to your specs."

Weis has gotten one more year so far to equal the winning percentage of their previous fired coach. Getting rid of Willingham proved a good idea, but hiring Weis, not so much...

Recognition

I can’t say enough about my two favorite blogs Get the Picture and Saurian Sagacity. There are not two more consistently thought-provoking and analytical college football blogs on the internet.
-Orange and Blue Hue

Rare is the SMQ shout out for the sole purpose of shouting out, but even rarer is the high substantive quality of disinterested naysaying in progress at Saurian Sagacity, where poster Mergz is steadily blowing up notions of "National Championships" new and old...-Sunday Morning Quarterback

In the old days, long before Urban Meyer roamed the sidelines at The Swamp, even before Steve Spurrier was slinging touchdowns and kicking game-winning field goals, some sports writers gave the University of Florida's football team a long-forgotten nickname: theSaurians. Today, two Florida alums pay tribute to those scribes of old as we enjoy the present and look toward the future.